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James

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Monster moved out!
« on: November 15, 2010, 04:58:52 pm »
A lady sent me on a mission to take down a night creature- a crone.

Me and my friends take down her spouses with no trouble, but the crone herself is kicking our asses. She kills all of my companions, and I decide to book it. Yeah, I am not proud of that, but I figured that if I stood and fought alone I would die, and I am not really a "death or glory" kinda guy, most of the time.

So I run. She chases me for some distance into the woods, but eventually I lose her somehow. I return to the castle, get some more meatshields companions, and return to the lair, expecting that she will have returned to her abode after losing me.

Unfortunately, it seems she didn't. We searched all over that area, especially the direction that I ran in, but never found her. I guess she's just out there in the wilderness somewhere, wherever she stopped chasing me. Unfortunately there's no easy way to locate or recognize that spot again.

Her lair is the only place the quest log points me to. Oh well.

Anyone else have similar problems/stories? A solution would be cool too, though I imagine there really isn't one other than scouring the wilderness thoroughly.
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minno

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Re: Monster moved out!
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2010, 06:40:43 pm »
I had the same problem, I had a few bandit leaders who ran away from the fight and I never saw them again.  I had about 5 uncompletable quests on my guy with 80+ named kills.  Now I always take out the leader first.
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Shrugging Khan

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Re: Monster moved out!
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2010, 07:04:09 pm »
Heh, I kinda preconceived on that one. Always killed the big ones first, or at least made sure they couldn't run far. Sneaking and a crossbow can take one far, it appeared  8)
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Misterstone

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Re: Monster moved out!
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2010, 09:25:03 pm »
Hmm, I've had a goblin bandit ring leader run away from me, but he would always go back to the camp.  Then the chase would start anew.  FInally he was too crippled to run.  >:)
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Zengrath

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Re: Monster moved out!
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2010, 09:49:12 pm »
Well i was reading current development and it looks like a tracking featuere will be implmented sometime, hopefully that will solve this problem.

I haven't had this happen to me just yet though, since every time I've gone to kill something i haven't retreated yet, its' ether killed or be killed, or i usually take too much damage where there is no point in running anyway once i realize i can't win anyway .... :/
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